Bohai Bay
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For other uses, see Bohai (disambiguation).
Bohai Bay (simplified Chinese: 渤海湾; traditional Chinese: 渤海灣; pinyin: Bóhǎi Wān) is one of the three bays forming the Bohai Gulf, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea, in northeast China. It borders Hebei province and Tianjin Municipality. The three bays are Laizhou Bay to the south, Liaodong Bay to the north, and Bohai Bay to the west.
It is the most southerly sea in the northern hemisphere in which sea ice can form.[1]
There are several oil fields located offshore in the Bohai Bay. Jidong Nanpu contains 7,500,000,000 barrels (1.19×109 m3), while the bay as a whole is estimated to contain 146 billion barrels (23.2×109 m3).[2]
On June 4, 2011 a large oil spill occurred related to the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "All About Sea Ice". Nsidc.org. http://nsidc.org/seaice/intro.html. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
- ^ "petroleumworld". petroleumworld. http://www.petroleumworld.com/story07051011.htm. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
- ^ F_129. "China needs zero tolerance for concealing major accidents - People's Daily Online". English.peopledaily.com.cn. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90780/7433972.html. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
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